Motivational Quotes

Evil

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

11.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

34.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.